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BERLIN (Reuters) - A man held in Lebanon in connection with a failed attack on German trains has confessed to planting a suitcase bomb and investigations suggest he might have links to al Qaeda, the Lebanese government said on Friday. "When he saw the pictures, he admitted that he planted the bomb," Lebanon's acting Interior Minister Ahmad Fatfat told Reuters television. "There is nothing clear now, but in his computer, we found something that can be related to al Qaeda, some contacts. He denied any contact till now with al Qaeda, but maybe he was working without knowing (it) himself...

Greek Train Bomb plot thwarted: 5 propane rail cars crossing Bulgarian border were rigged to explode 12-03-2004 Five wagons that would transport propane had been trapped with big quantity of exposives train from Bulgaria, that had destination Thessalonica and had been trapped with exposives, it unfolded the passed week in Serres. In the train, that charged propane in Thessalonica in the five wagons-reservoir, had been placed big quantity of explosive matter, without however detonator. After information that had the Counterterrorist Service, the train was immobilised in the station of Strimonas passed Monday the evening and now the beginnings appreciates that...

MADRID, Spain (AP) -- At least one explosion rocked a Madrid train station Thursday, news reports and witnesses said. Police cars raced to the Atocha station after the early morning explosion. An Associated Press reporter saw a woman with a bloodied face outside the station. Medics were seen treating at least three people. People living near the station said they heard at least two blasts. MORE...